Sentences with phrase «nonhuman life»

The value of nonhuman life forms is independent of the usefulness these may have for narrow human purposes.

Together with George Sessions, Naess politicized deep ecology by putting forth a platform of eight points that turn his conceptual idea into an ethical manifesto: 1) The flourishing of human and nonhuman life on Earth has intrinsic value.

The so - called «ontological turn» has seen the humanities increasingly expand their scope to include broader questions of being and nonhuman life.

Across these films and many others, landscape becomes a way of thinking and making images at a scale that exceeds the individual, whether by opening onto the wonder of natural processes, the intersections of human and nonhuman life, or the fraught triangulation of a people, the state, and the soil.

The second chapter is about the consequences of that understanding for living in our relationships with others, including nonhuman life.

And what of nonhuman life in both the north and the south?

Should it mean that the death of the Korean peninsula — its people and its nonhuman life as well — is imminent?

The annihilation of human and nonhuman life is increasingly possible.

The flourishing of nonhuman life requires such a decrease.

It speaks of «human and nonhuman Life on Earth» and of its «well - being and flourishing.»

It proceeds to ask the question of whether purpose has any meaning in nonhuman life.

Questions of eschatology in Christian theology quickly become questions of protology, and so we must ask how this picture of a beatific vision absent nonhuman life affects how we are to think of creation in the first place.

In particular one does not sense a continuity between Dasein and the world of nonhuman life.

Second, an ontological continuity is stressed between the human self and nonhuman life.

If we are capable of extinguishing ourselves and most, if not all, other life, metaphors that support attitudes of distance from, and domination of, other human beings and nonhuman life must be recognized as dangerous.

This largely, though not totally, functional, pragmatic view of truth stresses heavily the implications of certain models for the quality of human and nonhuman life.

Not exact matches

but projects the issues of life into a nonhuman, magical realm where ritualistic performances are believed to have influence.

We are part and parcel of the web of life and exist in interdependence with all other beings, both human and nonhuman.

If the fetus does not have the same claim to life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either, and the life of a newborn baby is of less value to it than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee is to the nonhuman animal.

Just as God is appreciative and affirming of life, human and nonhuman, so an «ethic of life» is appreciative and affirming.

There is intrinsic value, or richness of experience, in every living creature, human or nonhuman.

Babies — even those with dire prospects — are precious human beings whose lives have intrinsic dignity and inherent moral value beyond that of any nonhuman.

The model for thinking of the nonhuman world is taken from stones and machines, and living things are hardly mentioned.

Each one of us understands the world and interprets events from a particular perspective — and that perspective is profoundly shaped by our nonhuman and human environments, culture, socio - politico - economic location, and the myths and symbols that organize and give meaning and significance to our lives.

What's more, since the only designing intelligence that could have played a role in the origin and history of life (including human life) must have been nonhuman, my theory of design detection is irrelevant and misleading for biology.

For instance, corporate decision - makers frequent1y devise plans that damage or devastate human and nonhuman communities, without themselves having to live with the results.

Such enabling in community is based on a recognition of the fundamental interconnectedness of life, of men and women, blacks and whites, Americans and Nicaraguans, Americans and Russians, humans and the nonhuman community of animals, plants, air and water.

A great deal of human activity today is destructive of the life and relations of nonhuman creation.

Our nuclear knowledge brings to the surface a fundamental fact about human existence: we are part and parcel of the web of life and exist in interdependence with all other beings, both human and nonhuman.

This urge to live is also a feature of the lives of nonhuman animals.

, simple processes of interchange among living organisms, and operations of human and nonhuman consciousness.

We are nothing apart from what our moments of living contribute to future life, and this means to some or all of the following: our own future experiences; future experiences of other human beings, nonhuman animals, or plants; divine experience, this last contribution containing all the value whatsoever that our moments can have.

They begin with a brief overview of fatherhood in nonhuman primates and a discussion of how anthropologists are reconstructing the family life of our ancestors.

However, «The AAP Section on Breastfeeding, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Family Physicians, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, and many other health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of life.

‡ 2,127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of life.

Three or four spider species live in most North American homes, and they all tend to be found either tending their webs or hunting in nonhuman - infested areas.

In collaboration with a group at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, the USAMRIID investigators also found the first evidence of a Jingmenvirus in the blood of a nonhuman primate, in this case a red colobus monkey living in Kibale National Park, Uganda.

However, it and other animal groups were less happy with other aspects of the changed directive, especially moves to allow the reuse of animals and the use of nonhuman primates in experiments not directly linked to life - threatening or debilitating diseases.

«This has implications for humans and nonhuman primates, since hierarchical behavior and social dominance relations appear early in life and remain important throughout the lifespan,» Boyce said.

Tommy the chimpanzee lives in a cage on private property in New York, according to the Nonhuman Rights Project.

Will we eventually discover that nonhuman primates have a complicated inner life?

But among artists and scholars alike, the Asian nonhuman has also posed the utopic possibility of an identity free from the white gaze through the construction of a new life.

So few nonhuman animal species existed in the deforested, bulldozed, and poisoned planet, the London Zoo had truly become a kind of «ark» for all interconnected life — an ark, and a death row prison.

Ever since Watership Down I've loved books with nonhuman narrators, especially if they live in underground burrows and have large ears.

«Together we celebrate the human - animal bond in respect and admiration of the many roles of nonhuman animals in our lives, of our profound familiar relationships with them, and of our shared genuine love for many of them,» he said.

Community Partnering as a Tool for Improving Live Release Rate in Animal Shelters in the United States — Collaboration among all shelters and nonhuman animal welfare groups within a community along with the transparent, shared reporting of uniform data have been promoted as effective ways to increase the number of animals» lives saved.

«The process of making these is so slow and organic — like creating an aftermath or a debris field where you intuit, and sometimes actually make out, the lives of many generations of humans, alongside nonhuman traces, and objects, all laid down under pressure — which take time to make and are filled with that time, pieces of what might have been a larger canvas of handiworks that reference entire lives, whole communities that are brought into the field of the painting, where the painting itself becomes another community,» described Sacks his painting method in a 2014 interview with Natasha Kurchanova published on Studio International.

Focusing on the photographic series and video Infinity Kisses, which sensually portray the morning kisses Schneemann received from her cats, the exhibition illuminates the radical role that the nonhuman, feline body plays in her late erotics by foregrounding the centrality of the cat in her life and art, as companion and as a symbol.

Mildly stressful early life experiences can potentially impact a broad range of social, cognitive, and physiological functions in humans, nonhuman primates, and rodents.

A similar pattern of findings has been observed in some, but not all, studies of HPA axis development in nonhuman primates following early - life adversity.